Both historically and contemporarily, Manchester has been considered by many as synonymous with resistance and rebellion, the rebellious younger sibling of London. This is a long legacy, and most pertinent to it is Manchester’s lively spirit of working-class political activism. Market bubbles have existed for as long as there have been markets. Examples of major […]
Manchester’s Dr. Chris Godden reveals his life long relationship with economic history, and the crucial importance of its study. What first interested you in history? Perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but my original interest wasn’t in history. I had always enjoyed it at school, but for quite a long time, my main interest was economics. […]
For the French it is Verdun, for the British, it is the Somme. How do we think of the biggest battle of the First World War after 100 years? During one of the biggest battles of the First World War the British Empire and the French Empire tried to break through the lines of their […]
We look at Gove’s new British history proposals for the curriculum. Cartography in the iconography of British imperialism portrayed the visual culture of the British Empire. The Empire came to cover huge swathes of territory and from the nineteenth century onwards, Commonwealth countries were coloured pink on maps. Pink was a printer’s compromise for letters […]